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Forcing backlight to turn off when making a call (registry edit)?
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Posted by: fenningenarius

I bought a Motorola Q this week, which runs the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone software. You have probably heard about the very annoying buzzing sound that the keypad emits when the backlight/keypad light is on. As soon as the keypad light and screen backlight turn off, the sound goes away. It's only audible (to my ears at least) when making a call (when the phone is near the ear).

I was hoping there would be some way to force the backlight (or just the keypad light) to turn off as soon as the phone is actually connected and making a call (perhaps through a change in the registry). You don't really need the backlight turned on most of the time when you're talking on the phone anyway.

If not through a setting/registry change, is there any way to turn the backlight off by pressing/holding a certain key?

The best solution I've found so far is to set the backlight timer to 5 seconds, but I really prefer to leave it at about 30 seconds though. I just cannot stand hearing that buzzing sound for the first 30 seconds of every call I make. It's also annoying when it comes back on every time I adjust the volume during a call.

Thank you for any help....